Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question. Regarding the designation of businesses under the bill, I will ask my colleagues from the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness to answer you, because this will be done through their process. At the Centre, we help anyone who asks. W

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question. We have a partnership program with the private sector that is rather well developed. Our teams work 24/7 to create these critical infrastructure partnerships, and the teams continue to grow. We are currently recruiting more people and our turnover rat

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee, for the invitation to appear today and discuss Bill C-26, an act respecting cybersecurity and amending the Telecommunications Act. My name is Sami Khoury and I am the head of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security—also known as

Information & Ethics committee  We're doing a number of things. One is our own internal research on what the state of the art is in terms of what AI is up to these days. From a government perspective, we're also working closely with Treasury Board to ensure that it provides some guidance to the rest of the gove

Information & Ethics committee  We're definitely concerned about misuse of artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence comes with opportunities, but also with challenges. We know that artificial intelligence is often used to amplify misinformation. Part of the algorithmic nature of some of those tools is t

Information & Ethics committee  We contribute to the input into the decision. We are part of the round table with Treasury Board.

Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  The concerns we have are these: Who has access to the data? Where does the data reside? How easy is it for the host nation to get access to the data? That is what we are asking. Everybody who uses a social media app should ask themselves those questions in order to be a better-in

Information & Ethics committee  In our role, we don't issue advisories on specific apps. We share advice and guidance about social media in general.

Information & Ethics committee  That is a decision of the CIO of Canada.

Information & Ethics committee  In my role as the head of the cyber centre, I'm here to share with you the threat landscape as we see it. That threat landscape is informed from a number of sources. Some of them are public sources and some of them are classified sources. In a sense, whenever we find something, w

Information & Ethics committee  Unfortunately, I did not watch the testimony on the date you indicated.

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chair, if you share information, that can potentially contribute to the data-mining exercise of whoever is at the other end of that data leak.

Information & Ethics committee  I will begin and then my colleague can respond. The role of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security is to collaborate with Elections Canada to ensure that elections infrastructure is properly protected. That's what we did during the 2021 election.

Information & Ethics committee  Our role is not to examine the content of messages exchanged. Our main role is to protect infrastructure.